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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Sept 21, 2023 11:01:21 GMT -5
Shelton Benjamin gone
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Sept 21, 2023 11:02:14 GMT -5
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:05 GMT -5
Riddick Moss: HONEY IS RANDY MOSS A GOOD NAME IS THAT TAKEN
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:12 GMT -5
Shit, Cedric's probably got no chance
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:16 GMT -5
He's just such a solid utility player.
I know he's not much of a talker, but he's so good in the ring you'd think it wouldn't be hard to find a good use for him.
Though he's also somehow 48 years old.
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Post by Legion on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:23 GMT -5
Shelton is one of those guys who I always knew was great in ring, but just never cared about at all. He had no connection with me as a fan.
He'll be an easy pick for any company looking for some experience though, Impact maybe - or I could legit see him as NWA champ, with a mouthpiece maybe.
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Post by Moppy on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:29 GMT -5
Of all of latter-day Vince's nonsensical booking changes for the sake of changes, dismantling the Hurt Business for no apparent reason ranks... somewhere in the middle, but it was still silly.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:31 GMT -5
Sports teams cut people, but do they ever typically cut like twenty people as an arbitrary "time to make more money" thing? If a team cuts someone who's not working out, yeah, that directly makes room for someone new. TV shows will be canceled or not get renewed--which is not being cut--to make room for new shows on a new season, usually by consideration of the show's ratings. WWE isn't inherently making those cuts to make room for new people or for new opportunities, but because the people running the company are ghouls looking to tighten up the purse strings. I don't think the parallels to how sports or TV does it are really comparable here because we know the patterns of these mass releases, we know how they hold people who want to leave and then throw them out on a whim, we've seen divisions not have new names added in to them and fester because there's not enough people on the show to build out a credible division. This doesn't have the parallels you say it does. Yes. Angels just cut about 10 people after they made trades to get below the luxury tax line including putting someone on basically the waivers because they were out on personal leave dealing with family. It only saved them 10k and didn’t even get them below the tax line Sure but the Angels are a mismanaged dumpster fire trying to get below the line for an actual purpose around league rules. With WWE these cuts are just meant to shed payroll for the vague sense that Nick Khan wants a new boat. There's no fresh blood coming in here, there's no caps or external reasons they need to do this, this is just a cycle of bullshit.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Sept 21, 2023 11:04:43 GMT -5
Shelton never recovered from Viscera humping him.
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Post by gritizen on Sept 21, 2023 11:05:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 11:05:22 GMT -5
Yes. Angels just cut about 10 people after they made trades to get below the luxury tax line including putting someone on basically the waivers because they were out on personal leave dealing with family. It only saved them 10k and didn’t even get them below the tax line Sure but the Angels are a mismanaged dumpster fire trying to get below the line for an actual purpose around league rules. With WWE these cuts are just meant to shed payroll for the vague sense that Nick Khan wants a new boat. There's no fresh blood coming in here, there's no caps or external reasons they need to do this, this is just a cycle of bullshit. Won't you think of the value for the shareholders man!
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 21, 2023 11:05:29 GMT -5
SHOW THE WORLD, SHOW THEM THE AWESOMENESS OF MADCAP MOSS!!! He can become MadFap Moss although that gimmick might only work in the attitude era. someone would have had to explain the terminology to vince, then it would have been a gimmick for the rest of vince's tenure.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Sept 21, 2023 11:05:29 GMT -5
Oh, Mia ain't gonna be happy that Shelton's gone.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 21, 2023 11:05:53 GMT -5
Ziggler confirmed
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Post by canceled4truth on Sept 21, 2023 11:06:01 GMT -5
Dolph officially gone
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Sept 21, 2023 11:06:19 GMT -5
Guess it's time for the return of Shelton XXXXXX Benjamin!
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Sept 21, 2023 11:06:56 GMT -5
Dolph's a hall of famer if he wants it one day. He had a great career and was one of the company's workhorses for years and years.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 11:07:23 GMT -5
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Post by 4real on Sept 21, 2023 11:07:38 GMT -5
Wow Ziggler is gone. That’s big. Thought he was going to be there for life.
Hoping the future is bright for Ali as well and he gets booked like the star he clearly is.
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Post by XIII on Sept 21, 2023 11:08:07 GMT -5
Oh, Mia ain't gonna be happy that Shelton's gone. she probably shouldn't answer the phone herself the way things are going
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